Anarchist Bookfair 2006

by ThisBikeIsAHypeBomb Sun Mar 05, 2006 20:40

Any photos from the event up yet?

by x Sun Mar 05, 2006 22:33

Say it aint so...

by xx Sun Mar 05, 2006 22:51

i will not go, turn the light off, carry me home.........

by sovietpop - wsm Sun Mar 05, 2006 23:13 sovietpop at hotmail dot com

Huge thanks go out to the Belfast kitchen who managed to feet (almost) everybody at the end of the fair.

Books for sale

Sitting down for dinner at the end of the fair

Eating together

by sovietpop - wsm Sun Mar 05, 2006 23:14

That should have been 'who managed to feed almost everyone' above. sorry.

by h Sun Mar 05, 2006 23:39

fair paly to all involved and cooks, pity about turnout - hardly the feeding of the 5000 in that photo

by W. - WSM Mon Mar 06, 2006 00:11

It wasn't the feeding of the 5000 by any stretch of the imagination but I'd say there was around 100people there on the friday night and Saturday probably had around 250 visitors between 12noon and 7pm.

by ex Mon Mar 06, 2006 00:37

I'd imagine the location of the hall probably had something to do with the turn out i mean people did'nt randomly come in off the street, but either way it was really great , fair play to all involved!!!

by John - ISN Mon Mar 06, 2006 10:49

And a lesson for socialists in anti sectarianism with many non WSM groups attending. On behalf of the ISN I would like to thank the SWM organisers for our invite and their hospiltality and wish them well in future bookfairs.

by historian Mon Mar 06, 2006 11:38

This wasnt Irelands first anarchist bookfair. Anarchists organised a number of bookfairs, titled 'radical bookfair' in the early 90's which some members of wsm actually participated in. they were held in a few venues around temple bar including connolly hall.

by John - ISN Mon Mar 06, 2006 11:38

That should have read WSM not SWM. Obviously, its too early in the morning for me to be posting on indymedia.

by Clare Mon Mar 06, 2006 12:44

Thanks to everyone who organised the bookfair it was a great weekend.

Audio interviews above were good too but must be noted of all the 8 and a bit minutes of it not one single woman was interviewed. I was very surprised by that, there were woman attending the event, there were women heavily involved in the organising and there were plenty of women running stands and workshops.

Yikes, we have a bit of a way to go yet I think.

by Joe - WSM 1st of May (personal capacity) Mon Mar 06, 2006 13:16

It was a good weekend and the Jack White branch did a good job in both the organisation and dealing with the technical problems that arose on the morning. A lot of people who were not WSM members also helped out with the kitchen crew deserving special mention.

In terms of numbers I'd guess between 400 and 500 people were in at some point over the weekend but probably no more than 150 at any one time. The largest meeting was the republicanism and anarchism one, amazingly just under 50 managed to cram into the room (which only had room for 36 chairs). The people I asked mostly thought the level of discussion at the meetings was very good.

I'd say that not only is the potential there for this to become an annual event but it could become a very big annual event. My branch should be organising it next year.

Be interesting to also hear report backs from individual stalls, workshops, meetings and the video team. It would be useful when we come to look at how we will organise things next year.

by listener Mon Mar 06, 2006 13:23

Just listened to the audio report there, have to agree with clare, also there are a couple of voices on it that are always "the" voice of anarchism, heard them so many times, would have been good to hear people who had just wandered in or first timers so see if they thought it was any good.

by Lucky Jim Mon Mar 06, 2006 13:50

It seems this event was twice as big as the SWP's Marxism, though in fairness they charged an entrance fee.

by dunk Mon Mar 06, 2006 14:32 fuspey at yahoo dot co dot uk

event was great,
great music on fri night.; punks with funny hair cuts playing trad (a fine rendition of that crazy tune "johnny jump up")
sat was really enjoyable, really good atmosphere without the clickeness of past events, a lot of different people felt this ; well done to all who organised, turned up, talked with new people, had a laugh, dreamed.......

great to meet heads; new and old, irish, from abroad

more audio to come with women interviewer and short interview with kids from the street, unfortunately i missed doing an interview with an old couple who turned up and who have been at rts's in the past -- it was a bit hectice, hopefuly we can catch these fine people and get both their perspectives on the event..

and on sunday a good few people came up to dolphins barn garden and had a fine day

slán
dunk

by harcesz - obin.org Tue Mar 07, 2006 00:11 harcesz at poczta dot fm

http://obin.org/video/wawa/04-03-06-bookfair.mpg
40.1MB, mpeg2, shot on 3rd and 4th of march in Dublin, soundtrack by rebel folk band which name I dont know

if anybothy has got higher quality videos/photos, and would like to share thous we might be able to do a better material

the poeple with hidden faces are not terrorists (at least i dont know about it ;) - i just didnt have chance to ask them if they want their faces shown, and they possibly didnt know that i was filming them

by dunk Tue Mar 07, 2006 00:52 fuspey at yahoo dot co dot uk

films great, well done, zayabiyshtya y jenkuyi

summary of the "social centres- social or political spaces"
from one of the dublin social centre collective
7 mins - http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/social_centres.wav

clare interviews dunk about the social centres and spaces workshop
7mins - http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/social_centres_2.wav

talk with oli from save iceland campaign, they put out an international SOS after dodgy state dealings and plans to dam up the country.
http://www.savingiceland.org/
24 mins - http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/oli.wav

radio stuff found on w's link above - http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2006/03/8890.php

anarchist bookfair this way

welcome to the anarchist bookfair 2006

new things, new ideas; purses made from recyled soya milk carton

young and old

loads of books

by dunk Tue Mar 07, 2006 00:58

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freeshop...........

rules......there are virtually no rules

tough punk with mean patches

grubs up c/o the belfast food not bombs crew

tasty tasty vergan gruel

by dunk Tue Mar 07, 2006 01:02

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arm your desires

war of dreams

little prince and other fine books

revolt video stall

greening the city stall

by dunk Tue Mar 07, 2006 01:07

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film crew come down to check out whats going on

revlots vids on all day

greening the city ; because we have only 1 home

queuing for the free grub

by pat c Tue Mar 07, 2006 11:31

some good pics there. especially the one of the tough hooded punk with the skull & cross-bones pocket patch. that one will probably turn up again. i can see the capitalist media using it so this might be a case of a need for copyright as well as copyleft.

by krossie - wsm Tue Mar 07, 2006 19:03

I have a query in for audio of the repubican/anarchist debate - any one record some or all of it

Krossie

by dunk Tue Mar 07, 2006 19:08

some of the band that appear in film from bookfair are lynched, http://www.myspace.com/lynched4life is there site, theres some top tunes there to listen too - described as "Folk political street rats with cheeky ballads of anti-authoritarian blackguardism " check it out,

by dunk Tue Mar 07, 2006 19:20

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bookfair panoramic - click to enlarge

by james - barracka books Wed Mar 08, 2006 02:22

Congrats to all involved. Very good event well organised , friendly and open. there was a very good atmosphere the whole two days.

Barracka Books Workers Co=op had plenty of customers and made useful contacts. we will definitely be back next year.

by d-funkt Tue Mar 14, 2006 15:25

audio report form recent anarchist gathering in Dublin.
interviews with organiser and participents at the recent Dublin anarchist book fair.

This is a first attempt at uploading audio to indymedia....If its not accessable maybe someone could let me know..Or perhaps give me some tips on the tech side which isn't my strong point. cheers.
click here to link http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2006/03/8996.php

by dunk Mon Apr 24, 2006 13:46

anarchist picnic and lots of other stuff on this weekend

things are building, time to go to the streets again,

the revolution starts now

why?
What is the Truth? Ed Horgan Calls a Spade a Spade - and when the state(s) dont listen, time to fight.....
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/75612&comment_limit=0&c...46810

how?
each to their own, personally peaceful and creative interactive fun educational growing things.....

ie?
this weekend:
wheels turn, lots and lots of little revolutions - lots of stuff on; gardening, bike fixiing, criticall mass, greenway, screenings, audio hearings, gatherings, gigs.......
little by little
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/75596&comment_limit=0&c...46792